Word: ticket
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...residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized such a lottery syndicate, and many of its participants had never bought a lottery ticket. "It still doesn...
...Slate 60, which will become an annual event, is a work in progress that follows some rather arbitrary rules, and new details are coming in daily. (Slate will publish an updated version in January.) The list omits anonymous gifts, which means at least 12 very big-ticket donors are missing from its 1996 ranks. It also excludes gifts by corporate foundations rather than individuals, and any gifts less than $1 million. Judging by a single year's giving, rather than by a lifetime of charity, causes distortions too. Microsoft head Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, for instance...
Rawlins won the campus-wide vice presidential race last April on a ticket with current president Robert M. Hyman '98, beating runner up Haynes. This time, her vice presidential running mate, Michael A. O'Mary '99, placed third...
Price ran on a ticket with third-place presidential candidate Haynes...
...Hopefully, the election of Rawlins and Price without their running mates will discourage this ticket business in the future," said council parliamentarian Justin E. Jones...